Table of Contents:
  • Per Hage and the renaissance in kinship studies / Doug Jones, Bojka Milicic
  • Anthropology, mathematics, and Per Hage's contribution to kinship theory / David Jenkins
  • Back to proto-sapiens. Part 1, The inherited kinship terms papa, mama, and kaka / Alain Matthey de L'Etang, Pierre Bancel, Merritt Ruhlen
  • Back to proto-sapiens. Part 2, The global kinship terms papa, mama, and kaka / Pierre Bancel, Alain Matthey de L'Etang, John D. Bengtson
  • Reconstructing ancient kinship : practice and theory in an African case study / Christopher Ehret
  • Proto-Bantu descent groups / Per Hage, Jeff Marck
  • Kin terms in the East Bantu protolanguages : initial findings / Jeff Marck [and others]
  • Proto-Oceanic society (Austronesian) and proto-East Bantu society (Niger-Congo) residence, descent, and kin terms, ca. 1000 BC / Jeff Marck, Koen Bostoen
  • Oceanic cousin terms and marriage alliance / Per Hage
  • The transition from Kariera to an asymmetrical system : Cape York Peninsula to north-east Arnhemland / Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen
  • Proto-central Amerind *Pa : "father's sister" = "mother-in-law" / Per Hage
  • What is Malay kinship primarily about? : or, The new kinship studies and the fabrication of ethnographic fantasy / Warren Shapiro
  • The logic and structure of kinship terminologies : implications for theory and historical reconstructions / Dwight Read
  • Salience of verticality and horizontality in American and Tongan kinship terminologies / Giovanni Bennardo, Dwight Read
  • Marking and language change / David Kronenfeld
  • Grammars of kinship and color : cognitive universals and optimal communication / Doug Jones
  • Is there a kinship module? : evidence from children's acquisition of kinship terms in Pitumarca, Peru / Bojka Milicic.